Wind onshore leads at 12.5 GW but brown coal, hard coal, and gas fill a 10.7 GW import gap at night.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 1%
Biomass 11%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 15%
Hard coal 12%
Brown coal 25%
48%
Renewable share
13.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
38.4 GW
Total generation
10.8 GW
Net import
171.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.4°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
367
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 9.5 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the black sky, lit from below by orange sodium floodlights; hard coal 4.7 GW sits just right of centre as a pair of industrial coal plants with tall square chimneys and conveyor belts, illuminated by harsh halogen work-lights; natural gas 5.6 GW appears centre-right as two compact CCGT power stations with slender single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer, lit by blue-white security lighting; wind onshore 12.5 GW spans the entire right third and background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their red aviation warning lights blinking against the pitch-black sky, rotors turning slowly in moderate wind; wind offshore 0.6 GW is barely suggested as a few distant turbine lights on the far-right horizon; biomass 4.3 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and single smokestack in the middle distance, warmly lit; hydro 1.2 GW is represented by a small concrete dam structure at the far left edge with illuminated spillway water. The sky is completely dark, deep navy-black, 100% overcast with no stars and no moon visible, an oppressive low cloud ceiling reflecting the faint industrial glow in muddy amber tones. The landscape is a rolling central German plain in late summer, vegetation dark and lush but invisible except where caught by artificial light. The atmosphere feels heavy and close, 15°C summer night humidity hanging in the air. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from artificial lighting against total darkness, atmospheric depth with haze and steam, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, cooling tower flute, and gas-turbine exhaust cowling. No text, no labels.